Stock-car



(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 1.

B. O. HICKS. STOCK GAR.

No. 455,714. Patented July 7, 1891.

(No Modell) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

w B. G. HICKS.

STOCK UAR.

No. 455,714. Patented'JuIy 'Y, 1891.

UNITE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BOHN CHAPIN HICKS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TOTIIE HICKS STOCK CAR COMPANY, OF \VEST VIRGINIA.

STOCK-CAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 455,714, dated July 7, 1891. Application filed December 15, 1390. Serial No. 374,727. on model.)

To all whom it may concern.- f', which covers the gears, &c., and prevents Be it known that I, BOHN CHAPIN HICKS, them from being clogged byfilt-h and refuse, a citizen of the United States, residing at snow, &c., therebyinsuring the perfect work- Chicago, Cook county, Illinois, have invented ing of the device at all times. These plates certain new and useful Improvements in are fastened to the side posts by means of Stock-Cars, of which the following is a specibolts F, as shown, and at their lower ends are fication. provided with slots or recesses adapted to cm- This invention relates more particularly to brace the shafts, facilitating the placing of the theoonstructionand operation of the wateringtroughs and plates in proper position, preto troughs used in'stock-cars, and is intended to venting the latter from moving sidewise and 6c simplify and improve such construction; and regulating the adjustment of the gears. The it consists in the features and details of consockets f are passed over the trunnions and struction hereinafter described and claimed. the trough and its plates inserted between a In the drawings, Figure l is a vertical seepair of side posts, the slots in the plates be- I 5 tion of one side of the car with trough in poing passed over the shaft. The plates are then sition for use; Fig. 2, aface view of the guard bolted to the posts and the trough thereby and supporting-plate with gears indicated by fastened in place. If it be desired to remove dotted lines; Fig. 3, a side elevation thereof; one of the troughs,it will be merely necessary Fig. 4, a sectional View of plate and portion to take out the bolts that fasten the plates to 20 of the trough, taken on a line corresponding the posts, after which the plates and trough to line 4 of Fig. 2, looking in the direction of can be lifted out without disturbing the operthe arrows; Fig. 5, an elevation of the end of ating-shaft or any of the troughs, each being the car in dotted lines, showing the lever and independent of all the others. As will be connection with the shafts; Fig. (3, an inside readily seen,this putting the troughs in place 2 5 view of the end of the trough, and Fig. 7 an or removing them is a very simple operation, outside view thereof. which does not require special skill of any The troughs are pivotally supported, as sort, and this simplification of the manner of shown, between the side posts of the car. attaching the troughs is an importantand Each of them is composed of a body A, prefvaluable feature of my invention. 0 erably made in semi-cylindrical form out of The operating-shafts extend beyond the sheet metal, and end piecesB,preferably made ends of the car and are connected to levers of cast-iron. These ends are each provided G, one or more of which levers are placed at with a segmental gear C and a trunnion D, each end of the car. Then the shafts are preferably castintegralwiththe end,although, revolved by means of this lever, they act 5 if preferred, the gears and trunnions may be through the gears C and e to rock the troughs 8 5 madeseparate from and attached to the ends in one direction or the other, according as it in any suitable manner. The end pieces are is desired to turn them down into position for fastened-i0 the body by means of rivets or use or up into a position of non-use. screws, as desired. Shafts E are supported By this improved construction I am enabled 0 in journals at each side of the car and prefto make the trough in the fewestnumber of 0 erably beneath the troughs, there being two. parts possible, greatly simplifying and cheap shafts at each side extending from the reening it, while in no way interfering with its spective ends of the car to the doors in the perfect and easy operation. Owing to the sides thereof. Segmental gears e are secured form of the guard-plates, it is impossible for 45 to these shafts at proper distances to mesh, as the gears to become clogged in any way, so 5 shown, with the gearsv upon the trough ends. that the device is certain to act at all times.

I then make the combined guard and sup- I elain1 porting-plates F preferably of the form shown 1. The side posts of a stock-car and a trough in Fig. 2. These plates are provided with pivotally supported therebetween, said trough 5o sockets f to receive the trunnions and a flange consisting of a sheet-metal body A and two 10:

cast-metal ends or heads B, each of said heads being formed with an integral trunnion D and one at least .of said heads being formed with an integral gear 0, in combination with a rotatable shaft E parallel with the axis of the trough and having a gear 6 meshing with said gear 0, and guard-plates F F, each bolted at one end to the face of one of said side posts and each having at its opposite end a slot or recess which fits over the said shaft E, each guard-plate having a socket f, constituting the bearing for one of said trunnions D, and one at least of said guide-plates having a flange f which covers and protects said gears, substantially as set forth.

2. Adjacent side posts of a stock-car, a rotatable shaft extending horizontally along the side of the car, and a gear on said shaft, in combination with two guide-plates, one carried by each of said side post-s, each guideplate being bolted at one end to its side post and having at its opposite end a slot or re cess which fits over said shaft, and each guide-plate having a socket, and a trough having at opposite ends trunnions which fit and turn in the sockets in said guide-plates, said trough having a gear Which meshes with the gear on said shaft, substantially as set forth.

BOHN CHAPIN HICKS.

WVitnesses:

THOMAS A. BANNING, ANNIE O. COURTENAY. 

